Natural Building

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Biobased Creations CEO Lucas De Man believes that natural building materials such as timber, hemp, straw and mycelium could completely replace polluting, non-renewable materials such as steel, plasterboard and cement. Buildings can be made exclusively from plant-based products plus natural mineral materials such as earth and lime.

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Construction Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Construction companies that use less energy also reduce their business’s carbon footprint and create sustainability throughout the business’s practices. Since natural light is much softer than artificial lighting, natural lighting also helps with better-quality materials being used on construction sites.

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Natural Building

JUNE 16, 2022

Context, climate, craft and sustainability form the pillars of traditional Indian architecture and provide precedents for new cities and structures. Indian architecture seeks identity through local materials with modern techniques.

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Natural Building

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Natural Building Collective has shown what it really means to be innovative after revamping the Ulwazi Educare in Delft, Cape Town to accommodate 120 kids using tires, ecobricks, cob, reclaimed materials from the film industry, glass bottles and reclaimed doors and windows where possible.

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Natural Building

JULY 12, 2022

The new French environmental regulations position natural materials as a priority for a sustainable future in construction, in both housing and public buildings. Wood, straw, hemp, reed or bamboo, in combination with earth or stone for their high thermal inertia, offer virtuous alternatives to the use of cement.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Earlier this month I participated in a webinar titled Designing Highly-Sustainable Buildings featuring the Sketchup software team, along with Sefaira, a plugin that calculates various aspects of energy use pertaining to the design. Still, less energy intensive materials could have been chosen.

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Stok

OCTOBER 25, 2019

“What will it take to achieve the sustainability goals of our project?” Whether your sustainable project involves goals around carbon reduction, healthy indoor environments, or energy efficiency, the short answer is it takes additional coordination and planning and likely requires strategic consultants. 2: Design & Engineering.

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Natural Building

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Mycelium, the vegetative part of the fungus, is an ideal material, Mr Benjamin explains. These bricks score high marks for sustainability because they were “grown” with no carbon emissions and no waste. This method lets builders use local materials like agricultural waste, and also makes the bricks biodegradable.

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Construction Specifier

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When specifying flooring, one should consider both sustainability and performance. Both are affected by the material science that goes into the product: How are they constructed? Where do the materials come from that make these products? Even sustainably made floors must be installed correctly. It is such a waste.

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Construction Specifier

MARCH 6, 2022

Additionally, these early phases should also be approached through a lens of sustainability. The benefits of program efficiency for a research space include energy savings and material savings that can be applied to upgrade lab spaces. Do not overbuild. It has been said before: “lean is green;” and “avoid overbuilding.”

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BD+C

OCTOBER 16, 2014

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Construction Specifier

JUNE 4, 2020

The capabilities of these TEchnologies offer opportunities for communicating and analyzing the quantitative and material aspects of the design decisions related to sustainability and the built environment in an immersive and understandable way, both for the discipline and the larger public.

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Natural Building

MARCH 24, 2021

Building with adobe — a material created by mixing clay-rich soil with straw, sand, and other organic materials — has been in use since 8300 BC. This is sustainable because the materials have low embodied energy, are locally abundant, and can create energy-efficient buildings. b” meaning “the bricks.”

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Natural Building

JULY 20, 2020

In 2010 an estimated 104 million tons of materials flowed from project sites creating nearly 40% of the nation’s annual solid-waste stream. In the UK, the construction industry accounts for 60% of all materials used, while also generating 45% of all CO2 emissions through the construction and demolition process.

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BD+C

MAY 13, 2014

Leaders of America’s design and construction industry – along with building owners and operators - for the first time have agreed to promote resilience in contemporary planning, building materials, design, construction and operational techniques as the solution to making the nation’s aging infrastructure more safe and secure.

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Natural Building

MAY 6, 2020

Gauri Satam and Tejesh Patil have joined forces to found unTAG, a Mumbai-based architectural and interior design firm that believes in building sustainable homes. They have worked on around 40 environmentally and economically sustainable projects so far. “As The use of salvaged or locally sourced materials reduces raw material cost.

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Natural Building

DECEMBER 30, 2020

An innovative sustainable building material project by a team of civil engineering students from Tamil Nadu has won an award at a competition organized by the Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute. This alternate sustainable product could change the face of the construction industry,” the institute said.

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Construction Specifier

MAY 25, 2020

With the continued rise of biophilic design, which connects occupants to the natural world through a combination of natural materials, views, and also access to the outdoors, daylighting, and biomimetic patterns, these buildings are transforming into multisensory spaces that are winning awards and influencing international design trends.

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Natural Building

JANUARY 16, 2022

Ankit, a 32-year-old former journalist from Jaipur, India, set out on a cycle mission to transform India’s villages into ecologically sustainable communities. Along with teaching sustainable living he teaches the means for earning a living through eco-friendly ways. You can read the original article at www.sundayguardianlive.com.

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Stok

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

With the common reminder that humans spend 90% of our time indoors, coupled with a growing body of upwards of 400 research studies that indicate there are hazardous chemicals in our building products that building occupants are exposed to, the focus on healthy, sustainable materials across the design and construction industry is at an all-time high.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The United Nations has written a set of “principles for sustainable and inclusive urban design and architecture” for architects to sign up to called the San Marino Declaration, which architect Norman Foster is set to launch. Port cities need to ensure that port facilities are up to international transport and safety standards.

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BD+C

MARCH 26, 2014

Global architecture and design firm Callison announced the release of Matrix by Callison , a comprehensive online sustainable design tool. Body Image: read more.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Since the mid-1960s British-born Indian architect Laurie Baker pioneered a newer method of construction by using locally available material. Many architects thought of joining this movement of making only sustainable, highly energy-efficient buildings, but it mostly remained a romantic vision. None of them have inherited the trade.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Extreme sustainability was the chief goal for the reconstruction of Edward Durrell Stone’s Kellogg Center for Continuing Education at the University of Chicago.

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BD+C

JANUARY 18, 2024

Walter P Moore promotes former 40 Under 40 winner Kelly Roberts 0 qpurcell Thu, 01/18/2024 - 09:30 Engineers In addition to her role as a Principal, Roberts is a distinguished leader in structural design with an extensive portfolio encompassing diverse projects such as educational and healthcare facilities to commercial and healthcare structures.

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Construction Specifier

OCTOBER 6, 2022

With a potential lifespan of 80 years or more, architectural zinc roofing delivers longevity, sustainability, and resiliency to meet or exceed specified requirements on commercial, municipal, residential, educational, health care, and other thoughtfully designed projects. Elemental, natural, and sustainable.

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Natural Building

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Algae is a sustainable material available to designers. Upon learning that algae has a very high protein content, making it a contender for food of the future, this Danish studio decided to create an installation to start conversations about sustainable architecture solutions. You can read the original article at architizer.com.

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ENR Construction

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The effort to create Washington, DC’s first Net Zero Energy school was a lesson in perseverance, as the project team faced COVID-related material shortages and absenteeism, and permitting delays that shrank the original nearly two-year-long baseline schedule to just sixteen months.

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Natural Building

AUGUST 3, 2020

Professor Janis Birkeland is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne who has taught sustainable planning and architecture at several universities. Previously, she worked as a planner, architect, and lawyer in San Francisco to gain insights into the impediments to sustainability. Is this really progress?

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SAB Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Local product sourcing receives a lot of attention in green building rating systems, but the geographic limit it imposes considers only the transportation impacts of material selection. It does not take into account all the other potential environmental impacts that form part of the overall ecological profile of a material.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“Plumbing and electric alone were about $45,000, including my Air Source Heat Pump, and materials were easily $50,000 and still going up as I finish the inside.” Meanwhile, the former co-chairwoman of the Victor Sustainability Advisory Committee will carry on in her role as U.S. If I’m going to preach it, I’ve got to do it.

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Pro Builder

MAY 4, 2022

For the last two years, the building industry has been bogged down by supply chain disruptions, inflated materials prices, and construction delays, but for over a decade, persisting issues like labor shortages and building inefficiency have created a more widespread set of challenges. Education + Training. Education + Training.

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SAB Magazine

MARCH 17, 2016

The Athena Sustainable Materials Institute recently began publishing a new kind of document, something we call Environmental Building Declarations [EBDs].

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 29, 2024

Scholarship prizes total $50,000 and will support educational expenses such as tuition, books, room and board, transportation, and childcare. In addition, Autodesk is also offering students who who are continuing their education in the building trades $50,000 worth of microgrants *. Of course, it isn’t a contest without prizes!

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BD+C

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem It's going to take the efforts of government and the private sector to mitigate the climate-damaging problem of embodied carbon, says this building sustainability expert, Brent Trenga.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In this special Autodesk University episode, hear Shannon Goodman , Executive Director of the Lifecycle Building Center , share her expertise on utilizing construction waste for more sustainable and reusable buildings. Join us and discover how to reduce waste on the job site and find new uses for materials.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The City of Cape Town, South Africa is using recycled materials to construct a new multipurpose center at the Helderberg Nature Reserve. The Helderberg Nature Reserve will provide benefits include education, recreation, tourism, job creation and skills development. These walls are compacted with sledgehammers to form a solid base.

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